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PERIL ON THE RAIL.
Fatal Accidents in South Carolina
and West Virginia.


A freight train from Spartansburg and Il
passenger train from Atlanta ran into each
other at Greers Station, twelve miles east CT
Greenville, South Carolina, the other
morning. Two persons were killed and
ten injured, one Of whom was ex-
pected to die. Both engines were wrecked,
also the postal, baggage and express cars Of
the passenger train and the first three cars
of the freight train. Engineer Harris and
Conductor Reville, of the freight train, dis
appeared.
On the same day, at noon, the fast express
on the Chesapeake AMI Ohio Railroad, six
coaches, going West, met with an accident II
miles below Charleston, W. Va. Twenty
six passengers were more or less injured.
None were killed outright, but several were
seriously, if not fatally injured. The railroad
authorities sent to Charleston for surgical
aid. and Drs Henry Tompkins and Thomas
left for the scene of the accident, reaching
there within twenty minutes.
The accident was caused by defective
switch, over which the engine, baggage, ex-
press and mail cars passed unharmed; but
the three middle coaches, all we'll filled with
passengers, were thrown from the track; two
Of them were turned completely over; one
turned over twice.
Two passengers suffered with broken
backs. 1t was fortunate that the fires had
gone out in the stoves, or the loss Of life
would have been great. Many of the injured
were not able to continue their journey.
Those who were worst hurt were taken to st.
Albans, only few hundred yards from the
annidaDt
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LATER NEWS.

EIGHT State tickets in all were nominated
in New York
HENRY NJ. JACKSON, cashier at the United
State Sub-Treasury, is defaulter for over
$4,000, and has fled to Canada.
THERE arc 500 cases of typhoid fever in
Cincinnati.
The counties of Hidalgo and Starr, Texas,
are overrun with Mexican banditti, who are
stealing horses and people, the latter held for
ransom.
MAYOR LATRoBE has been reelected in
Baltimore after al exciting canvass by ma
jority of 4,2115 over the Republican candidate,
who was supported by Democrats opposed to
Senator German.
JEFFERSON DAVIS reviewed procession Of
5000 Confederate veterans at Macon, Ga.
THE -Confederates living in Washington
visited Richmond in body to attend the un.
yelling of the Lee monument.
THE Scotch Will send another yacht to
America next year to compete for the Amer
ica's Cup.
IN Paris five Englshmen have been
arrested charged with forging securities Of
the Southwest Railroad Company of Kansas.
A CHINESE transport was lost during
typhoon, and $50 Cinnamon and five Euro
peans were drowned.
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SWEPT BY STORMS.
Numerous Disasters to Ship
ping On the Lakes.
Many Vessels Driven Ashore in q
Binding Snow Storm.

A Chicago dispatch states heavy storm
visited the entire lake region. The wind had
q velocity of forty miles an hour. Only one
or two trivial accidents occurred at Chi
cago, but the news from outside indicated
considerable Damage. At Milwaukee the
velocity of the wind was forty-five miles
an hour all day and night, with gusts of snow.
The Schooner Mains, Of Chicago, was wrecked
and the crew was saved with difficulty. The
men had climbed into the rigging, but the
sea broke clear over them The Lake Su-
perior Transit Companys steamer took shell
ter under Iroquois Point Other vessels were
weather bound at various places on the north
west point of Presque Isle; the barge Plymouth
w,nt ashore and her crew could not get off :;
nor, while the sea ran so high, could any at
tempt at rescue be made. The crew Of the Alva
Bradley were in similar peril on Shot Point,
but, it is reported, escaped. The schooner
Sherman was wrecked on the same spot go
ing ashore in q binding snow storm. Seeing
that tho schooner was lost, the crew took to
the boat. While going ashore the
mainmast fell across the boat, without
injuring any one. When the shore was
reached, the captain was dashed against the
rocks and badly stunned He was pulled
ashore by the others. All were saved. They
VI.
dercl around in the woods until o'clock in
the snowstorm, almost dead from exhaustion.
They carried the cook, woman, on q litter
The three -masted schooner Zack Chandler,
of Cleveland, was driven on bar in Lake
Eric off Noble Station on the Lake Shore
Railroad. All night long the waves broke
over the decks and the officers and crew.
ten in numbcr-werc compelled to lash them
selves to the rigging At 8 o'clock in the
morning the disaster was reported at Cleve-
land, and Captain Goodwin, of the Life Saw
ing Station, went to the place on a special
train. The crew was rescued with cons .derable
difficulty. The Chandler was evidently
broken in two.
The schooner j. +. Joy, Of Ashtabula
orc.ia len for Erie, and leaking badly, at
tempted to anchor outside the harbor, broke
away, drifted OH rocks outside of the piers
and sank in twenty feet Of water. The crew
was saved by small boats.
The propeller George Sp:n?er, with con-
sorts Ironton and Tremble went hard aground
on the flats at the lower end of Lake George.
This will block navigation.
The barge Oriental, coal laden. bound
from Charlotte to Toronto in tow of the pro-
peiler Scotia, broke her towline and sank
with all hands, four persons in all.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
How to Boil Vegetables.

Be sure that the water is at boiling
point before putting into it the vegeta-
bles to be cooked. If it is cold or luke
warm, the freshness and flavor will soak
out into the water. Place the saucepan
over the hottest part of your stove, so
that it will boil as quickly as possible,
and be careful that the boiling process
does not cease until the contents are
thoroughly cooked and ready to be
dished.
Potatoes should boil half an hour, un
less small, when fifteen to twenty min
utes will suffice. Let those of common
size, or as nearly as possible, be selected
for meal, and on no account boil sweet
and white potatoes together.
Carrots, when young and tender,
should be boiled three quarters of an
hour. When old, they require another
quarter. The same rule holds good for
onions.
Cabbage and caulifowcr require from
twenty minutes to half an hour. The
old-fashioned method of boiling cabbage
from two to three hours is mistaken
one, and ruins both the appearance and
flavor of the vegetable.
Green corn, peas and asparagus should
be boiled from twenty to twenty-five
minutes. When peas are at all old and
present q slightly yellow appearance this
length of time will be insufficient; but
the fault is in the peas, which are not,
and scarcely can be made, fit for the
table.
Lima beans, when young and tender,
will boil in thirty to forty minutes. If
they are quite large and of white or
cream color, forty-five minutes will be
required.
String beans and "butter BEANS" as
they are called, resist more yaliantly
than any other vegetable any attempt on
the part of a cook to spoil them by too
much cooking. Three-quarters of an
hour should be sufficient, if they are fresh
and tender. When little old, an hou;
will produce better results.
Turnips should be boiled forty minutes
in summer. In winter they require an
hour.
Summer squash may be prepared in
half an hour, but the winter vegetables
will require threc-quarters OF an hour.
Spinach should be boiled twenty min
utcs. Beets require an amount of boil
ing that varies in proportion to their size
and the time of year. In Summer, when
they are young and small, an hour will
suffice. In winter, they require one and
a half hours boiling, and even two hours,
if of large size. Beets should never be
prodded with fork to see if they are
sufficiently tender, as this allows the
crimson coloring matter to escape and
spoils their appearance on the table.
With vegetables, as well as all other
food, no amount of dexterous cooking
will transform those that are ill grown,
old or stale into good, succulent, nour-
ishing dishes. On the other hand, the
finest and freshest vegetables can easily
be spoiled by bad or careless cooking
The Examiner.
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SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

A sAwMILL boiler exploded at West
Brownsville, Penn, killing two brothers
named Kelly and wrecking the mill
SENATOR FRYE, of Maine, spoke before the
Convention of the American Shipping and In
dustrial League at Boston, saying that Con-
gress should put its hand into that big sur
plus and pay for sailing merchant ships under
the American flag" Ten States were repre-
sented in the Convention.
THE cornerstone of the new Clark Univer-
sity was laid at Worcester, Mass. General
Charles Devens presided ut the ceremonies,
and Senator George +. Hoar made the
address. Mr.. Jonas G. Clark has given
S2,0c0,00O for the purposes of the University.
AN express train crashed into two palace
cars at the Hoboken IN. J.) depot, COM
pletely wrecking them as well as an office
building. Engineer Dunn was killed.
HENRY GEORGE and Sergius Shevitch,
leaders of the rival labor factions in New
York, had lively Sunday night debate be-
fore large audience in Metropolitan
theatre.
Two brothers named Cunningham were
blown to pieces, and another man named
Schmidtke was seriously injured by the e1-
plosion of boiler on a small steam launch
at New York.
A BUFFALO dispatch states that during the
recent heavy storms on the Lakes fifteen ves-
sells were wrecked and seven lives lost
GREAT mountain fires on the Blue Noun
tain range in Pennsylvania have destroyed
much valuable timber.
THE New York Court of Appeals decided
adversely to the Henry George Labor party's
claim to the fifth election Inspector i'll the
Metropolis.
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THE PROHIBITIONISTS.
Their Cause ut Stake Before the
Highest Court Of the Land.

Their Cause at Stake Before the
Highest Court of the Land.
It is stated that there is great deal OF ex-
element among temperance people through
out the country owing to an apprehension
that the Supreme Court Of the United States
will declare the prohibitory liquor laws
unconstitutional. Seven cases are pending
before the court Two of them come
from Kansas, four from Iowa, and one
from Atlanta, Ga. Tho Kansas cases
have already been argued in behalf
of the brewers by Senator Vest. of
Missouri, and Joseph H. Choate, of New York.
No one appeared for the Prohibitionists, to
their great astoniShment, and the blame is
charged against Attorney General Bedford,
of Kansas, who had charge of the case, but
failed for some reason to appear.
AS is well known, says a Washington
special, hundreds of millions of dollars are
invested in the manufacture and sale Of
liquor in States where prohibitory laws have
been enacted and enforced, and if such do.
cision as is expected is given, the States will
be compelled to pay immense sums IN
the shape Of damages to those
whose in nvestments have been idle. The cases
are regarded as of as great national import
ance as the famous Dred Scott case, and tho
entire temperance movement will be par
alyzed unless the Court decides in its favor.
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FOREIGN.

JOHN DICKERSON, California capitalist,
has been murdered in Mexico by bandits.
KITAH, a town of Bokhara, Central Asia,
has been destroyed by fire. Half its in
habitants perished in the flames.
A WIDOWS house in County Wexford, Ire
land, was defended against cvictors by
twenty eight men. The Emergency men
were routed with vitriol, boiling tar and
red-hot iron.
JOSEPH CONDOR, Nationalist member Of
Parliament, has been arrested, charged with
intiinidating witness,
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, speaking at
Newcastle, England, defended coercion in
ireland.
THE Walker coal pit at Newcastle, Eng
land, is on fire. Three miners were rescued,
terribly burned, five were taken out dead, ami
the twenty-one remaining in the mine were
rescued.
Mrs. GREER, widow, aged fifty, her son
William, aged twenty-four and an adopted
daughter, aged nine, were burned to death
in their house at Clearwater Station, New
Brunswick.
QUEEN VICTORIA is a grandmother again,
her favorite daughter, Princess Beatrice,
wife of Prince Battenburg, having given birth
to girl.
A PLOT to kill Prince Ferdinand of Bull.
garia, NJ. Stambouloff and NJ. Natchovitcb
has been discovered.
NEWS has been received Of StanleY's e1-
pedition in Africa. The expedition had ad-
vanced nearly S0J miles, and had met with a
friendly reception from the natives in
hitherto unexplored region.
DURING heavy storm off Cape Horn the
British bark Balaklava had nine men, in
cludins the mate, washed overheard and
drowned
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE Sioux City corn palace attracted Co.
900 visitors in one week.
THE appeal of the Chicago condemned An
archists covers $3.50 pages.
THE agitation against the Chinese is in
creasin in all the colonies of Australia
The apple crop in New England this sea-
son is about three-fourths OF an average one
ONE Florida county expects To pay this
year from $1,000 to Sl,5OU for wildcat and
lear scalps
BRITISH COLUMBIA is putting forth indus
trious efforts to obtain settlers from Norway
and Sweden.
THERE are 1850 acres of table grapes:
4S, ,5i3 acres of ra;sin grapes, and 33,O36 acres
OF wine grapes bearing in California
DURING the past year Isl miles OF ne"
railroad have been built in Arizona, making
I,05O now in operation in the Territory.
THREE hundred million pounds sterling is
the estimated loss by land depreciation in
England, an average of thirty per cent all
rDunl.
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OLD IN YEARS,

EDMUND MONTGOMERY, of Georgia, lived
to be 102 years of age without ever taking
dose of medicine
ALTHOUGH once wealthy, Mrs. Sinchy
Minderhart died at the New Paltz IN. "
poorhotse just after she had had her hun
dredth birthday.
IN New Hampshire, Mrs. Annie Colony, Of
Pennington, is % years old; Mrs. Clarrissa
Lawrence, of Marlboro, %; while Mrs.
Daniel Abbott, who died in Surry. was ~.
THE mother of Major King, of Kingston,
Canada, is q years of age. At the recent
election she walked to the polls, marked her
ballot without using glasses, then walked
home and resumed her household duties
THERE are on the pension rolls the widows
of two soldiers in the Revolutionary war, one
in Northwood, n. H., 9G years Of age, and
another in Washington. Ohio, only 70. The
latter married very young to soldier very
I'D. She was l6 years, while the bridegroom
was 78.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

ga GLIMPSE OF PARADISE" Is the name OF
John A. Mackay's now comedy.
COLONEL MAPLEsoN, the once great oper-
attic impresario is now provincial tourist In
Great Britain with singing company heaaeu
by Minnie Hauk.
WE are promised new American comic
opera by Mr.. Adam Geibel, fhllaaelpnala ma
composer. 1t is called "Marln' OF 'ne
knights of the Road"
NINE. TERESA CARRENo, the pianist, mas
inst arrived after her successful tour IN
South America. She will give concerts dur
ing the winter in the United States
FANNY DAVENPORT has agreed, it is said,
to pay sec, 600 on the delivery OF the manu-,
script Of Sardou.s &C La Tosca," and an equal
sum after the fiftieth performance.
THE Thomas orchestra of eighty musicians
will be heard in New York this winter III
twelve symphony concerts, twelve pnDllc TO
hearsals and twelve popular matinees.
GEORGE q. JEssUP and Horace Townsend,
the latter of the New York Tribune, have
been commissioned by Mrs. Langtry to write
play for her on a historical subject
MADAME ARMSTRONG, an AuStrallan
vocalist has just made her debut at Drusssis
in "Kigoletto" The critics are d nnnnhe ant hesis
tate to compare her to Patti.
paid fabulous salaries at the present. Time
Masini is earning 5000 a nightly in buenos
Ayres; Tamagno commands $1,000 per-
formance in Europe, and Marcom receives
$500 night.
A FIRM Of Belgian instrument makers nave
manufactured, to be used in new piece at
the London Alhambra, two long -oosolete
musical instruments called the lituus and the
buccina, formerly used in the bands OF tne
Roman cavalry. The instruments have been
copied from originals unearthed at Pompeh'
! THE recent death of Maurice Strakosch re-
moves one Of the hest known musical char
acters from the stage and ends the career OF
q man associated with the most prominent
vocalists of the world. Everybody knew the
manager, first in his capacity as teacher OF
Adelna Patti, and latterly as successful
impresario.
NINE PATTI will, after a banquet rendered
to her by the Brazilian Minister, at London,
| in December, start via Paris, where she VIII
| sing once to Lisbon, where she will give
eight representations, and thence to Madrid,
whence she will sail to reach South America
at Easter. She holds guarantee Of 5000
performance in tho Southern Hemisphere.
beside share of the receipts over certain
sum.
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THANKSGIVING DAY.
The Presidents Annual Proclama-
tion to the People

tion to the People.
The following proclamation has been is
sued by the President:
A PRoCLAMATIoS.-Byt the President Of
the United States:
The goodness and the mercy of God which
have followed the American people during all
the days of the past year claim their grateful
recognition and humble acknowledgement BY
His omnipotent power He has protected us
from war and pastilence, and from every ma
tional calamity; by His gracious favor the
earth has yielded a generous return to the
labor of the husbandman, and every path of
honest toll has led to comfort and content
ment; by His loving kindness the hearts of
our people have been replenished with frater-
ternal sentiments and patriotic endeavor, and
by His unerring guidance we have been
directed in the way of national prosperity.
To the end that he may, with one accord,
testify our gratitude for all these blessings, l,
Grover Cleveland, President of the United
States, do hereby designate and set apart
Thursday, the 24th day of November next,
as day OF thanksgiving and prayer, to be
observed by all the people of the
land. On that day let all secular
work and employment be suspended,
and let our people assemble i'll THEFT accus-
toned places Of worship, and with prayer
anu SOlSS vi pIdiSo Bife UlletilhS w OuE
Heavenly Father for ali that He has done
for us, while we humbly implore the for
giveness of our sins and a contin-
uance of His mercy. Let families and kin
dred be reunited on that day, and let their
hearts, filled with kindly cheer and affection
ate reminiscence, be turned in thankfuness
to the source of all their pleasures and the
giver of all that makes the day glad and JOY
Gus. And in the midst of our worship
and our happiness let us remember the
poor, the needy, and the unfortu-
nate, and by our gifts of charity and ready
benevolence let us increase the number Of
those who, with grateful hearts, shall join in
our thanksgiving.
In witness whereof I have set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twenty
fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven,
and of the Independence Of the United States
the one hundred and twelfth.
By the President: GROVER CLEVELAND.
THOMAS F. BAYAPD, Secretary of State.
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THE LONG TOUR ENDED.
Return Of tho Presidential Party to
Washington.

Washington.
The special train containing the Presiden-
tial larty reached Montgomery, Ala, at
o'clock Thursday morning. The visitors
were greeted with booming cannon and the
cheers of great crowd. The military
presented arms as the President and Mrs.
Cleveland entered their carriage. After
breakfast at the Exchange Hotel, the Pres
ident reviewed the military parade, and
there was a presentation to Mrs.
Cleveland of handsome solid sill
yer jewel casket, representing q cotton
Indicative of the visit to Montgomery. A
satin copy of the days edition of the Mont
gomery Dispatch, consisting Of thirty-three
pages, claborately and eXpensively. trimmed
and enclosed within a handsome crimson
plush roll, bearing on q silver plate an ap-
propriate inscription, was also presented to
the President and Mrs. Cleveland by
Editor Fitzgerald. After q drive through
the the principal Streets IT., the ,opE,ndS parry
where, in presence of an immense crowd,
Governor Sleay delivered an address Of well
come. Mr.. Cleveland responded, speaking
words of praise for Alabama, its people and
its industrial growth. After drive around
the Fair grounds the party again took the
special train and started OH their journey for
Washington.
At Calera, junction point in Alabama,
where the special train stopped to change en-
gines, 5000 or 1000 persons were assembled,
and among them 500 workmen from Birming-
ham, who had come on q special train with
cars gaily decorated. Here three cheers were
given for Mrs Grover Cleveland and the
President Mrs. Cleveland remarked sotto
voce: They have got it wrong end first"
but the President thought the people knew
what they were about.
At Ashevile N c., the party stopped an
hour and were escorted through the city in
carriages. From Asheville the train pro-
ceeded on its way without further stop,
reaching Washington Saturday evening.
Both the President and Mrs. Cleveland ex-
pressed themselves as we'll pleased with their
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EATEN BY SHARKS.
A Mail Carriers Awful Fate in
Florida.

A Mail Carriers Awful Fate in
Florida.
James E. Hamilton, the mail carrier be-
tween Miami and Lake Worth, on the
Florida southeast coast, has been devoured
by man-eaters at Hillsboro Inlet. He was
stout, athletic young man and carried the mail
between the two places,a distance of seventy
five miles, on his back, walking on the beach
most of the way. The inlet is dangerous
crossing, the back waters of the Everglades
meeting the tides and producing heavy and
dangerous seas. Sharks of the most
ravenous kind abound there. An old
fisherman, who was within half a mile of
Hamilton when he began crossing, describes
the tragedy as horrible occurrence. When
Hamilton reached the middle of the inlet the
sharks flocked about his boat, leaping ten
feet or moro out of the water in their eager
ness to get at human flesh.
Hamilton fought them with his oars, but
soon both were bitten off and dashed out of
his hands. Then they assailed the boat,
tearing huge pieces off the gunwale Soon it
began to sink, and Hamilton became
stupefed with fear. Another blow on
the frail boat and he was thrown headlong
into the masses of fierce seawolves. One
Shrek of agony and all was over. The seq
was dyed for yards around with his life
blool. Searching parties were sent out, but
nothing found.